He prayeth best who loveth best.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThis world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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